VEXED
Dictionary entry overview: What does vexed mean? • VEXED (adjective)
The adjective VEXED has 2 senses:
1. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
2. causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed
Familiarity information: VEXED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VEXED (adjective)
Meaning:
Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
Synonyms:
harassed; harried; pestered; vexed; annoyed
Context examples:
harassed working mothers / a harried expression / her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions / the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Meaning:
Causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed
Context examples:
the vexed issue of priorities / we live in vexed and troubled times
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
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